crime of Roger Whetmore’s murderer. If you look at the question as simply and literally‚ “Did they willfully take the life of another?‚” the only possible answer is yes. However‚ the circumstances surrounding this problem were extreme‚ and that forces one to consider other factors in the problem. As a Judge on the Highest Court of the land‚ I would be required to give the defendants a completely fair trial. “Innocent until proven guilty” does not apply in a traditional sense here‚ for they do not need
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you know you will miss your flight because of it? The ‘Trolley’ Trolley Scenario 1 A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are 5 people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately‚ you can flip a switch which will lead the trolley down a different track. Unfortunately‚ there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch? Why? Trolley Scenario 2 As before‚ a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on
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Systemization of the Trolley Problem‚ they offer many other variants to the fat man being “But this time a heavy stone is located behind the man on the side track. The man on the side track is not heavy enough to stop the trolley. The stone will block the trolley if you turn the switch. But the man in front of the stone will die.” (Bruers and Brackman 254) By implementing the stone into the situation the survey actually showed that the percentage of people switching the trolley increased up to 75%
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Shiaa K PHIL 1020: Ethics Paper #1 Supposing I observed a runaway train at the rail-yard and if it continues hurtling in the direction it is going‚ it will kill five people. Luckily for me‚ I’m standing next to a power switch and if I pull the lever of the switch‚ the train will divert into a different track. However‚ there is one person working on this track and if I pull the switch‚ that rail worker will die. Here’s what I would do. I would in fact pull the lever of the switch to spare the
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The second and most popular thought experiment is the runaway trolley. This experiment differentiates right from wrong. It has two different familiar variations. A runaway trolley car is going down the track. There are five people on its track who can be killed. There is only one option to save these five people but it may kill only one person. A spectator may have to press the switch which will change the direction of trolley to another track where it goes toward one person. In this experiment
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The Trolley Problem is set up in two parts. The first part of this problem puts the reader in a passive position to choose between shoving a large person onto the track causing one person to die to save the five other people and refraining and doing nothing would allow the five to die and the one person to live. The second part of this scenario would put Frank in a very personal position to choose to do something about the situation at hand‚ or to let five people die; or deliberately push a large
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The Trolley Problem‚ originally proposed by Philippa Foot prompted a range of responses. More specifically from Judith Jarvis Thomson‚ who presented a variation and response to this scenario. One of Thompson’s adaptation encapsulates the notion of a bystander who has the option to either remain inactive and let five people die or to reroute the trolley‚ by means of flipping a switch that would cause the trolley to move towards the direction of the other track with one worker‚ hence killing them
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the strengths and weaknesses of both views. The “Trolley Problem” is a short video published by BBCradiofour which depicts an ethical dilemma with three possible outcomes (BBCradiofour). In the video‚ a runaway trolley is barreling down a track with five unaware workers facing impending doom. The viewer is then presented with the first two of the ethical options which are to actuate a lever to change the direction of the trolly or to let the trolley run over the five workers. These two options are
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Sandhya Kal IME 402-06 Professor Erik Jackiw 4.29.15 Midterm Paper: Three Cat Book stories Analysis Case I: Should We Sacrifice One to Save Five? A. This case is about a train driver that is facing a dilemma that has three different options to approach it. He has been given notice that his locomotive has a design fault that means that his train will blow up if it is going under fifty mph‚ which would kill the five hundred passengers on board. If he does not slow down‚ he would kill five people that
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The trolley problem is an ethical dilemma that was developed by an English philosopher Philippa Foot. It was designed for the purpose of analyzing how people make ethical decisions in critical situations. The trolley problem describes a trolley that is moving on tracks with non functioning brakes and there are five people tied to the tracks ahead of it. There is also a lever that switches the direction of the tracks in the way where only one person is tied to the tracks. The problem asks people to
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